Exact sequence variants should replace operational taxonomic units in marker-gene data analysis

ISME Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 2639-2643

  Callahan, Benjamin J ^a   McMurdie, Paul J ^b   Holmes, Susan P ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Whole Biome   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

OTUS;

BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENETIC VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85029421971     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.119     Document Type: Article

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